can be controlled with very little force - which is precisely what our standing military and law enforcement personnel represent (< 6 million professionals vs > 300 million civilians of which > 70 million keep and bear private arms.

Our Fore Fathers were civilized but definitely not domesticated.

Today, Free Citizens in our Free Society are civilized and willingly comply with the just laws and rules of a peaceful society. But we, like our Fore Fathers, will never be domesticated to the point of subservience or subjective slavery to criminals and / or elitists who would be our masters - foreign or domestic.

Your ludicrous post indicates that you simply don't understand the magnitude of the 2nd Amendment and may be too domesticated to value the Freedom it guarantees.

"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms".

— Tench Coxe (1755–1824), writing as "A Pennsylvanian," in "Remarks On The First Part Of The Amendments To The Federal Constitution," in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789, p. 2 col. 1

It just does not get much more clear than that but if you need more try:

"The power of the sword, say the minority..., is in the hands of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments but where, I trust in God, it will always remain, in the hands of the people."-- Tench Coxe --

As a marine, I'm sure you learned what a gun is actually designed to do

When I am wearing MY seatbelt, it is being worn to protect MY life.

When I am wearing MY life vest, it is being worn to protect MY life.

When I am carrying MY defensive firearm, it is being carried to protect MY life.

If attacked by a criminal or crazy; my weapons, including my guns, are designed to help me stop the attack and protect MY life. Whether or not the attacker(s) survive the encounter is irrelevant to MY defense.

The term "gun rights" is a misnomer and should be restated as "arms rights". By definition and "arm" is a weapon that can be transported and operated by an individual. By definition a "weapon" is any tool that can cause physical or psychological harm to living beings.

I maintain that it is my unalienable right to keep and bear any weapon that I can transport and operate without assistance from others. The list of weapons available to me include slings, bows & arrows, guns, hammers, axes, knives, clubs and many, many more

2) Please explain how you interpret the 2nd amendment to grant "gun rights."

The 2nd amendment "grants" nothing. It is a specific, enumerated restriction on the government.

The 2nd amendment specifically recognizes my unalienable right to "keep and bear arms" and guarantees that unalienable right "shall not be infringed" by the government.

3) Please give an example of how a regulation has personally infringed your "gun rights."

Luby's Cafeteria Killeen, Texas Oct. 16, 1991. 23 murdered 20 wounded. I passed on the Luby's Lu Ann plate that day and opted for a chicken fried steak at the Hallmark Restaurant, about a mile away. Coming out of the restaurant we heard the sirens.

At that time, carrying our guns on our person was illegal so our guns were legally left in our cars. George Hennard, the murderer, did not give a crap about the law and shot 43 of my friends and neighbors who were rendered defenseless by the law.

Never Again!

"I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all." - Martin Luther